<div dir="ltr">Don't they have a dial-up modem line for backup to connect to their SIP provider?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>--<br>Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, +1 (360) 474-7474</div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Erich Lippert via Outages <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" target="_blank">outages@outages.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">All my fax machines are broke :-(<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br>On Wednesday, March 16, 2016, Joe Abley via Outages <<a href="mailto:outages@outages.org" target="_blank">outages@outages.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Does anybody even make phone calls any more?<div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 16 Mar 2016, at 17:32, David Thompson via Outages <<a>outages@outages.org</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">I never said it was entirely under attack but a portion of it is. Whomever it is that’s initiating these attacks is actually doing measurable damage to the economy of the US in lost business, or delays. I don’t know about you but I’d consider that an attack against a portion however small of our national infrastructure.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">David Thompson<span> </span><br>Network Services Support Technician<span> </span><br>(O) 858.357.8794<span> </span><br>(F) 858-225-1882<span> </span><br>(E)<span> </span><a style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline">dthompson@esi-estech.com</a><br>(W) <a href="http://www.esi-estech.com/" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">www.esi-estech.com</a></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><span> </span>Outages [mailto:<a style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline">outages-bounces@outages.org</a>]<span> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span> </span></b>Mike Phipps via Outages<br><b>Sent:</b><span> </span>Wednesday, March 16, 2016 11:25 AM<br><b>To:</b><span> </span><a style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline">Outages@outages.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span> </span>Re: [outages] VoIP Innovations Outage</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </p><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Right... because one VoIP provider getting DDOS'ed means that the entire national phone system is under attack. That would be the equivalent of some kid smashing a Bell-owned payphone back in the 1990's. It causes a denial of service for would-be users of that phone, but it's not like the entire phone network goes down with it.</div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </p><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 12:20 PM, David Thompson via Outages <<a style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline">outages@outages.org</a>> wrote:</div><div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">I wonder when the FCC is going to step in here and force VI to build a more robust network or just pull their license to operate altogether? Eventually this starts to become a matter of national security as basically our national phone system is under attack by possibly foreign agents.</span></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">David Thompson<span> </span><br>Network Services Support Technician<span> </span><br>(O)<span> </span><a href="tel:858.357.8794" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">858.357.8794</a><span> </span><br>(F)<span> </span><a href="tel:858-225-1882" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">858-225-1882</a><span> </span><br>(E)<span> </span><a style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline">dthompson@esi-estech.com</a><br>(W) <a href="http://www.esi-estech.com/" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">www.esi-estech.com</a></span></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p><div><div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-color:rgb(181,196,223);border-top-width:1pt;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><span> </span>Outages [mailto:<a style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline">outages-bounces@outages.org</a>]<span> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span> </span></b>Chris Stone via Outages<br><b>Sent:</b><span> </span>Wednesday, March 16, 2016 10:47 AM</span></div><div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br><b>To:</b><span> </span><a style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline">outages@outages.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span> </span>Re: [outages] VoIP Innovations Outage</div></div></div></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Update to their public ticket on this:</span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><u>3/16/2016 11:42:00 AM -- by RandyS</u></li></ul><ul type="disc" style="margin-bottom:0in"><ul type="circle" style="margin-bottom:0in"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><br>We are aware that the VI network has again been under DDoS attack and that inbound and outbound calling and other VI services have been affected. Many of you voiced concern over lack of updates on this ticket. We are concerned with the possibility that the perpetrator(s) of this attack! may have access to public ticket updates and have therefore chosen to limit the information we put herein. Please know that we have made significant changes to prevent this and are continuing to address even this latest attack. We are not able to share additional information at this time due to the aforementioned concerns. We will provide details and include an RFO at a later date.</li></ul></ul><div style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> <br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </p><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">On 03/16/2016 08:50 AM, Frank Bulk via Outages wrote:</div></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt" type="cite"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">This has been discussed on the voip_operators-group listserv, too. They had issues early in March for a few days (<a href="http://blog.voipinnovations.com/blog/updates-on-recent-network-outages" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">http://blog.voipinnovations.com/blog/updates-on-recent-network-outages</a>), March 11, and now again today.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Frank</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p><div><div style="border-style:solid none none;border-top-color:rgb(225,225,225);border-top-width:1pt;padding:3pt 0in 0in"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span> </span>Outages [<a style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline">mailto:outages-bounces@outages.org</a>]<span> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span> </span></b>Chris Stone via Outages<br><b>Sent:</b><span> </span>Wednesday, March 16, 2016 9:46 AM<br><b>To:</b><span> </span><a style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline">outages@outages.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span> </span>Re: [outages] VoIP Innovations Outage</span></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif">Seeing down as well. Inbound calls are working some of the time, but many are dropping after the line is answered. Getting nothing from their web site either - time outs.<br><br><br>Chris</span></p><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">On 03/16/2016 08:42 AM, Jeff Johnson via Outages wrote:</div></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt" type="cite"><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">We are seeing them down also</span></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> </span></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Jeff Johnson<br>Director of Operations<br>410 S Ware Blvd | Suite 411 | Tampa FL 33619<br>Direct:<span> </span><a href="tel:%28813%29%20774-3570" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">(813) 774-3570</a><span> </span>| Fax<span> </span><a href="tel:%28813-569-2366" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">(813-569-2366</a><br><b><span style="color:rgb(51,102,255)">Email:<span> </span><a style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline">jjohnson@neturallyspeaking.com</a><span> </span></span>|<span style="color:rgb(51,102,255)"><span> </span><a href="http://www.neturallyspeaking.com/" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">www.neturallyspeaking.com</a><br></span>Customer Service<span> </span><a href="tel:866-448-0038" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">866-448-0038</a><br> </b></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;text-align:center"><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><span> </span>Outages [<a style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline">outages-bounces@outages.org</a>] on behalf of Ron Shoe via Outages [<a style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline">outages@outages.org</a>]<br><b>Sent:</b><span> </span>Wednesday, March 16, 2016 10:41 AM<br><b>To:</b><span> </span><a style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline">outages@outages.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span> </span>[outages] VoIP Innovations Outage</span></p></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Inbound calling through VoIP Innovations appears to be down, as is their backoffice website, and their toll free number for support. I have no further details.</div><div><div><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br>-- Shoe</span></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Ron Shoe</span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">President, Chief Telecomolologist</span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">SIP Oasis, Inc.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="tel:%28205%29%20383-2301" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">(205) 383-2301</a><span> </span>— Direct</span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="tel:%28205%29%20383-2331" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">(205) 383-2331</a><span> </span>— Fax</span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline">rshoe@sipoasis.com</a></span></div></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.sipoasis.com/" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">www.sipoasis.com</a></span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></p></div><div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Support issue? 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